former speechwriter for president george w. bush. welcome to you both. >> good to be with you. >> george, what kind of foreign policy explanation is that? something that will send a message but not really do anything at all. what's the point? >> it's a blind quote. i don't think it is the policy. what's happening is the president is exploring all the options, meeting with generals and deciding what he's going to do. he hasn't made a decision yet. we'll see what it is. the speculation beforehand is basically politics as always right now. >> as we're waiting, that begs the question, have we waited too long? should we have done something months ago, years ago? the president's been saying the end game is to get assad out of office and stop him from killing his own people. >> james rosen reported that's not as easy to do as some would lead you to believe. you could open up a channel in which the wrong rebels take power and you have an even bigger problem. part of the problem here is i once had a foreign leader say to me the problem with a